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More charges of copyright infringement and fraud have been
brought against Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and several of his
associates.

The German national, who is also known as Kim Schmitz, faces
extradition to the United States for his role in megaupload.com,
which US Federal prosecutors say has cost copyright holders more
than $620 million in revenue lost through pirated material.

Dotcom and three others were arrested in January after police
raided his rented mansion in Coatesville, Auckland, at the request
of the FBI. Police cut Dotcom out of a safe room he had barricaded
himself in.

Dotcom was remanded in custody until February 22 after a
bail hearing this month.

In revised US court documents additional charges of criminal
copyright infringement and wire fraud have been made.

The document filed in Eastern District of Virginia court alleges
that the defendants reproduced copyright works directly from
third-party websites, including from YouTube, and made them
avaliable on Megaupload.

They are now also accused of creating a false impression that
Megavideo.com hosted primarily user-generated content instead of
copyright-infringing content.

It's the latest in a series of charges brought against
Megaupload and Dotcom.

The original charges include conspiracy to commit
racketeering, conspiracy to commit copyright infringement,
conspiracy to commit money laundering, and two substantive counts
of copyright infringement.